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New Public Governance, the Third Sector, and Co-Production
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New Public Governance, the Third Sector, and Co-Production

by Victor Pestoff, Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere
June 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
406 pages
14h 46m
English
Routledge
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5  Third Sector and the Co-Constructionof Canadian Public Policy

Yves Vaillancourt

INTRODUCTION

Canada does not have a unitary political system, as Sweden, France and Chile do.1 It has a federal political system, like Germany and Brazil. This is not without implications for public policy development. In the Canadian federalist system, public policy is designed not only by one central national state, but also by thirteen provincial and territorial states. This remark is important for correctly interpreting the meaning of the expression “Canadian public policy” used in the title of this chapter. At first glance, one could conclude that it refers mainly or solely to public policy initiatives carried out by the federal state. But such an interpretation ...

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ISBN: 9780415897136